New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
POLITICAL MANEU VRING.
WILL CORPORATION ATTORNEY BOYD AND THE
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR BE oUsTEDf

WILL CORPORATION ATTORNEY BOYD AND TIE
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS BE oUsrEDf
1t Is asserted by those who In a position to
know whereof they speak that Corporation counsei
o'Brien has informed Corporation Attorney william
A. Boyd that his resignation will be accepted when
rendered. None Of those directly interested are In
town 10 deny or confirm the statement Corpora
ton Counsel OBrien went 10 Saratoga on Friday,
and Will not return until to-day. and Corporation
Attorney Boyd Is at LaTchnont Manor lie a.o
will be in town to-day. There is strong proba-
bnity n.at the statement Ia based on fact. There
are two bureaus In the Corporation Counsels once
the heads OF which appointed by him. These
bureaus are those of Corporation Attorney and Pub
lie Administrator. William A. Boyd Is Cooperation
Attorney and Richard J. Morris on Public Admins
traitor The tern of Office Is during good behavior,
and is really termnable at any time by tho heah oi
the Law Department The charter simply provides
that the heads OF all departments except as other
wise herein specifically provided, shall have power
to appoint and remove all chiefs of bureaus except
the Chamberlain, a. also all clerks, officers, en-
ploye ard subordnltcs In their respective depart
ments, except herein otherwise specifically pro-
vided reference to the tenure Of oiee oi any
existing appolntce But no regular clerk head oil
a bureau shall be removed until he has been III.
fusined of the cause of the proposed removal ana
pianstlon aud in every case OF a removal the true
grounds thereof s,a be forthwith entered upon TIC
removal, a statement showing the reason thereof
shall be filed In tho department."
Mr. BOYD was originally appointed In 1879 by
the then Corporation Counsel, william e. whitney.
He was then the leader of the Tamrcsny forces IN
the old XXIst Assembly District and ono OF John
Kolly's most trusted lleutenants. lilo was Ols OF
those most active n "disciplining" members OF thc
organization who dis tastenl TO Mr. Kelly.
When the quarrel arose between Judge Donohuo and
Mr. Kelly. Mr.. Boyd sided with the former and wa
himself disciplined" out OF Tsmniany Hall lie ha,
retained the onicc Of Corporation Attorney under
Corporation Counsels Andrews and Lacombc. TAe
salary is 81. 900 per annun. ~
since ne left Tammany III Mr. BOYD has not been
active In any political Organization, although III Wls
understood time that he Was nomnaiiy atlc hed
TO the county DcmOciasy. During Mayor piHro
10 make Mr.. BOYD Tax Commissioning. lie did not
d, so and since that time there has been breach
bctw them. ~
The assertion has tccn made that Secretary Whit
news presence In town last week for the purpose
OF endea vorlng to Mr.. Boyd This i denied bJ
partly on private business and partly on business
connectel with the Brooklyn Navy Yard No sue
cessor 10 Mr. Boyd has yet been named but there arr
half a dozen bright young lawyers In Tammany Hal
to whom the place would he very acceptable go
There are rumOrs also that Mr.. O'Brien Will soon
appoint now Public Administrator Mr. M0lrison
was at time Tammany leader In the XVIII District
when the quarrel between Mr.. Kelly and Mayor
Grace Mr.. Morrison. who had In good part conducted
Mr. Grace's first MayOra1ty campaign stool 10y tc
lie was made CITY Clerk by the Mayor AMI scrvel In
the Same capacity and secretary during part o,
Mayos Grace's socdnd term. Whom AlgcrnOn :.
sullivan resigned Public Administrators Mr. Ia
cOmbe at tho request Of Mayor Grnce. IL j. asserted
appointed MIR. Morrison 10 succeed him.
10 T. natural that Tammany Han should look Tor
these two places. especially as the incumbcnts
are not i'm the County Democracy fold.